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In reply to the discussion: 20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core": [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)That means if they have similar contracts in every state = 5 billion a year -- from state coffers. government gravy train city.
What drives this kind of education? In Texas, it might be the one hundred million dollars paid every year to the test publisher.
Last year, the first year of a new state five-year contract with Pearson Educational Measurementthe publisherTexas taxpayers paid out that sum. The same amount was paid for this years test.
By the end of the current contract, Pearson will have been paid one half billion dollars.All of this is happening at a time of deep budget cuts in education, school closings, overcrowded classrooms and, worst of all, teacher dismissals.
http://bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/florida-can-look-to-texas-for-relief-from-jeb-bushs-testing-regime/